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Yamaha is aiming to "reinvent" the stage keyboard with the YC61 designed for gigging musicians who want realtime control of pianos and a whole lot of organ.
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Korg has officially announced the new and improved SV-2 Stage Vintage Piano. It retains the awesome looks of the SV-1 but piles on the sounds, the polyphony. The SV-2S comes with integrated speakers.
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Roland has announced a new version of their slim but fully weighted A-88 MIDI controller. The A-88MKII comes with some useful expressive control but most remarkable is that it supports MIDI 2.0
Has the Korg SV-2, a sequel to their SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano, just been leaked by an online store? If so, it will have more sounds, more polyphony, splits, layers and better effects...
Behringer has announced the BA 19A Condenser Boundary Microphone and B 906 Dynamic Microphone. With the new mics, the company continues its mission of cloning the most successful microphones around.
Amidst all the Black Friday madness, here's our collection of this week's free plug-ins! We've got a synth with some cool rhythmic features, a graphic equalizer and an Upright Piano VSTi.
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Sampleson has worked some magic with their spectral modelling to build a piano in software from a patent filed by Leo Fender in 1959 of an electric piano that was never constructed.
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If you're after a huge workstation that will be everything and do everything while looking like the flight deck of a moon-sized space station then Fantom is right up your exhaust port.
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The Jupiter-X looks fantastic and runs all their vintage models and has a built-in drum machine. The Jupiter-Xm has all that in a more hipster package. Is this the flagship we've been waiting for?
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Sarah Nicolls is building a lightweight & portable acoustic "Standing Grand" piano based upon her innovative "Inside-Out Piano" and is looking for people to support this unique project via Kickstarter
This week’s lineup of free plug-ins: A graphic EQ, a tasty lo-fi piano, and an awesome electromagnetic interference instrument. Check out Efektor, Room Piano V2, and Cyclotronic Signals - Aurora.
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Sampleson has shifted its spectral modelling gaze onto the electric pianos of the 1990s and offers up the aptly named Glassy combining classic DX and Roland digital sounds with a snuggly pad generator
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E-Instruments has released a collection of deeply sampled electric piano sounds for Steinberg's HALion and HALion Sonic instruments. Vibrant Electric Pianos could be all the pianos you'll ever need.
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Spectral Modelling is a curious thing. They sample an instrument and reduce it down to simple sine waves that recreate the authentic sound in a handful of MBs. The Model T is their latest electric piano.
Kurzweil mixes the Forte into their PC range of production workstations and comes up with the PC4 with loads of sample library, 1000's of presets, virtual analogue and now 6-operator FM built in.
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In a stunning change of direction Clavia produce the gorgeous looking Nord Grand which could easily become a cool piece of furniture as well as an awesome piano and sample synth.
